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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1968
Page
1
Pinpoints of the News reports six floats entered for this year’s Biblesta with titles such as Sacrifice of Abraham and The Nativity from local churches and groups. The committee urges rapid notice from planning float or window display entrants.
Secretary Clifford calls for stronger U S negotiating position with Moscow by advancing missile development and defense. He also advocates maintaining a substantial American military presence in Western Europe amid Soviet troop buildup in Czechoslovakia. The remarks at the National Press Club mark a broader shift after the Soviet invasion.
Senate leaders grow wary of Abe Fortas as chief justice and consider the nomination might die in committee. President Johnson remains hopeful but signals no withdrawal. Senator Dirksen notes possible success in blocking the nomination with a filibuster in the Judiciary Committee.
A threatened Philadelphia teachers strike was averted with a 27.6 million two year wage package for 12 500 teachers raising starting salaries to 6700 and top wages to 13200 while 290 000 city students begin the fall term. Elsewhere walkouts continue delaying the nation’s fall opening. Former Kentucky Governor A B Chandler named as running mate for George Wallace per Louisville Courier Journal report.
A veteran Viet Cong battalion using women and children as human shields charged a U.S. 101st Airborne company 26 miles northwest of Saigon. Thirty-one Americans were killed and 27 wounded as three waves broke through before night. Viet Cong losses were reported at 31 with many enemy dead.
Oswego Kansas four prisoners escaped the La bette County jail on the fourth floor by crawling through a vent pipe and lifting a roof cover. They dropped to the breeze way then forced a toilet window outside the jail and exited via a ground floor door. The escapees were Ronnie Beasley 18 Floyd Young 19 Alex Greenfeather 32 all of Parsons and Earl Haynes 17 of Columbus. Nine others did not attempt to flee.
Emporia city manager Virgil Basgall announced a $650000 federal grant to aid expansion of the water system. The project totals about $1.8 million with the local share funded by revenue bonds.
The excerpt compares political conventions to marriage, noting that the concern lies not with the initial cost but with ongoing upkeep and expenses for the taxpayer reader.
Chicago AP reports the 1968 Democratic National Convention will incur large costs with taxpayers bearing a fair share. The convention committee received 750000 in cash and services valued at 160000 from a local nonpartisan group. About 25000 federal agents police and guards were present during the event and the plan included 5500 Illinois guards plus Army troops.
In Sublette Kansas the Department of Agriculture may hold a hearing on removing the three member Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. About 325 farmers attended the meeting to urge a local hearing and to seek elected community committeemen who would pick the ousted trio.
Area forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions through Saturday. Tonight and Saturday will bring highs in the 80s with overnight lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. In Kansas, fair weather with a gradual warming trend is expected with western and northern sections warmer today and tonight. Highs today mid 70s north to low 80s south. Saturday highs in the 80s. Some light showers reported in northern Kansas with less than a tenth inch precip. Thursday highs ranged 70 Concordia to 79 Pittsburgh. overnight lows 46 Leavenworth to 55 Dodge City.
Nixon labels the forgotten American as key to the nation's future while Humphrey wins Liberal Party backing in New York and vows Vietnam war leadership. Wallace gains Mississippi governor Williams's Democratic backing as Hillmes is reported killed in action in Vietnam.
The Kansas Democratic Platform Committee began drafting planks after public hearings on platform proposals. Planks will go to the Democratic Party Council on Saturday. Urban and rural-area spokesmen testified, including Buford L. Shankel and Clarence Rupp. Shankel accused Kansas of a rural oriented legacy by generations of Republicans.
Gov Robert Docking reveals administrative assistant Paul Pendergast 32 leaves to lead the governors re election bid He will be Kansas Democratic Party executive secretary and John Ivan 29 succeeds Pendergast Ivan previously acted as Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control Also noting campaign roles and tax reform discussions with lawmakers in Topeka and Wichita convention plans with Harman Shankel and Rupp.
Federal planners foresee a new breed of nurse trained in five to six years of college work to serve as family health counselors. These visiting nurses will work under physicians, handle many ailments, and act as first contact for health problems, with doctors taking over more complex cases. Programs include University of Colorado pediatric care and Tuskegee Institute mobile and home visiting units expanding to whole families.
The 1968 Christmas Seal Institute hosted by the Neosho County Tuberculosis and Health Assn and the Kansas State Tuberculosis Hospital convened at 10 counties to train 31 participants. The program highlighted state techniques for Christmas Seal fundraising with 93 percent of funds staying in Kansas to combat tuberculosis and respiratory diseases.
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